On the account that the ADSL service (if you could call it that) is being terminated finally tomorrow, I’ve been looking to see what we could get to use for about 2 more months while the house is finished off.

Had considered dial up, but ideally didn’t want to use it if we didn’t have too. In the end we enabled Three’s X-Series plan on my wife’s Three mobile. Just as well we get a 3service signal from the rental. Which means the traffic is part of the plan usage. Otherwise it’s $1.65mb if it’s not.

Tested it out for the first time lastnight using her MacBook to dial out the phone using Bluetooth. Worked great and probably as fast as a 256/64 ADSL connection. So not bad. It’s only for about 2-3 months.

EDIT: We signed up for the Platinum service, in case anyone was interested. Wanted to make sure we had enough included data per month. Of course she doesn’t have an X-Series capable phone for the other services, but to enable it you either put her sim into a capable phone to activate it or use one of the many documented ways to get around it (all you need is Firefox with user-agent switcher) and a bluetooth enabled on the phone so you can dial out with it to the Three intranet.